Axle for railway or road vehicles.



No) 002,540; Patented Nov. 27,1900.

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AxLE 'F00 RAILWAY 00 R0A0 VEHICLES.

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(N0 Model.)

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AUGUSTUS O. MASSEY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO MALCOLM MCDONALD, OF SAME PLACE.

AXLE FOR RAILWAY OR ROAD VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent No. 662,540, dated November 27, 1900.

Application led May 29, 1899. Serial No. 718,788. (No model.)

To all whom, zit may concern: l the recess D is formed, the nose O and recess Beitknown thatI, AUGUSTUS OSNER MAS- D fitting accurately to each other. On the SEY, of Los Angeles city, in the county of Los adjacent parts of the axle the fianges E and Angeles and State of (Jalifornia,haveinvented F, respectively, are formed, so that they bear 55 certain newand usefullmprovementsin Axles against each other when inclosed by the box for Railway and Road Vehicles, of which the or yoke G. This box or yoke G is constructed following is a full, clear, and exact descripin two portions, as shown, which are held totion orspecification,reference being had to the gether by bolts and nuts H. annexed drawings and to the letters marked In Fig. 5 the nose C is shown hemispher- 6o Io thereon. ical and it may be cylindrical, the shape of My invention has for its object to enable the the nose not being an essential part of my inwheels of vehicles used on railways and other Vention, the essential feature in this respect roadways to be rolled upon a curved track Ybeing that the nose accurately fits into the without straining the axles torsionally; and it recess in the other half of the axle and that 65 consists in constructing the axles on which the antifriction-rollers I are placed in the rethe wheels arecarried in two portions, on each cesses between the flanges, as shown in Figs. of which one of the wheels of each pair of l, 3and 5. wheels is carried and keyed, so as to rotate Now from the construction of the central with that portion of the axle. The portions portion of axles after the manner herein de- 7o 2o oi' the axles where they meet at the center of scribed and shown upon the annexed drawlength of each are formed with a nose and ings it is obvious that when any strain tendrecess, the nose being on one half of the axle ing to twist the axle takes place instead of the and the recess in the other half of the axle, axle being thereby strained it is enabled to the dimensions of the nose and recess, respecyield rotatively to such strain, and thereby 75 tively, being such that they fit accurately into the tendency to fracture such axle by reason and upon each other. The parts of the axles of such torsional strain is thus gotten rid of, adjacent to the nose and recess are formed while the antifriction-rollers enable this rotawith a deep flange, having antifriction-rollers tive yielding to take place with the minimum between the flanges, and the several parts are of frictional resistance. 8o 3o held in such operative connection by means Having now described myinventionand the of a box or yoke which incloses them. best system, mode, or manner I am at pres- On the annexed drawings, Figure l is an ent acquainted with for carrying the same elevation, partly in section, of an axle coninto practical effect, Idesire to observein constructed in accordance with my present im clusion that what I consider to be novel and 85 3 5 provements and showing a railway-vehicle original, and therefore claim as the invention wheel mounted near the outer end of each to be secured to me by Letters Patent, is as halt' of the axle. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the follows: central part of such axle, showing the box or The combination with a divided axle havyoke which incloses the nose, recess, and ing a central nose, a central socket, flanges 9o 4o ianges, respectively. Fig. 3 is an end ele on each division ofthe axle and hoxinclosing vation of that half-of the axle on which the said parts, of the antifriction-rollers between nose is formed, also showing the iiange and the iianges, substantially as described and the box or yoke inclosing the same in section. shown upon the annexed drawings.

Fig. t is an end elevation of the box or yoke, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 95 showing the axle in section. Fig. 5 is an enmy hand and seal, in the presence of two sublarged view showing my improvements in secscribing witnesses, this 7th day of April, 1.899. tion. f. 4

In the drawings one half of the axle is AUGUSIUS C' MASSEY' [L' 5'] marked A and the other half B. On that half Witnesses:

5o of the axle marked B the nose O is formed, ST. JOHN DAY,

and in the other half of the axle (marked A) JOHN SATTERWHITE. 

